Said the Gramophone

The Answer is "Tenure", the Question is Moot.

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The Walkmen - "On the Water"

On the water, written in invisible lines, invisible for now, are secret water countries. Ocean, river, and nation lakes that are far older than our mere land states. Immense wars, vast campaigns of espionage and intrigue, gruesome battles, even interminable grudges and millennial stalemates. The countries are not stratified along lines of species, that's a classic human mistake, most ocean states (like Br'fellia, Nochvaleee Kingdom, and The Huv) will have many whales in their fleet, but also hundreds of thousands of jellyfish, a few dozen sting rays, and carp carp carp. We're talking about tens of thousands of years of rivalry, trading, invasion, occupation, devastation, deliberation, slavery, loss, love, hope. A young couple, dolphin lovers, separated like a million others, her to fight and him to light the porch light every night. But soon, the war will come home to him, come crashing and squeezing in from the Roof, rushing up from the Bottom, and he'll either escape or he won't. It's really none of your concern; it never was. [Pre-order]

Phil and the Osophers - "High Art"

Biggest hurdle to me even posting this at all: the band name.
Biggest reason it jumped that hurdle: "for braggin' rights, awoo-oo."
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